Re: [Slashcode-development] Side effects of making a topic a nexus?

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

A skin is the equivlant of a 'section'.

The skin kinda brings it all together, including the graphical-changes 
in appearance, if any, you'd want.

So, to answer your questions: yes, a skin gives you distinct sets of 
articles - based on the skins.nexus. Since the nexus is a group of 
topics - any story posted w/ a topic that's in that nexus is shown in 
that skin. (well, depending on how you've arranged your topic 
parent/children and the topics-list in each story).

I believe nexuses and skins are supposed to be 1-1, because you can 
only assign a single nexus to any one skin.

A topic seems to only have topic-extras when it's marked as a nexus. So 
you'd have to mark your 'book reviews' topic as being a Nexus. But you 
don't necessarily have to associate a Nexus with a skin that I can see. 
So I think you're OK with what you want to do.

  Shane




On Mar 3, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Gaulin, Mark wrote:

> Hi Shane
> I don't think I want the topic to be a skin, but that may be because I 
> don't know what a skin is for. Looking at the skins table definition, 
> it seems that you want a skin if you want to have a different host 
> name, indexhandler, and I'm not sure, but does it also give you a 
> distinct set of articles on the "home" page (for that host name)?  I 
> don't want any of those things for this topic/nexus (called Book 
> Reviews), I just want to have topic_nexus_extras that are different 
> than the Main Page (it's parent topic).
>
> Are nexuses and skins always supposed to be 1-to-1?  I would think 
> not, but that could be part of my problem.
>
> Thanks
> 	Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane [mailto:sh...@lo...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:28 PM
> To: Gaulin, Mark
> Cc: sla...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] Side effects of making a topic a
> nexus?
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Gaulin, Mark wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> In order to get unique "extras" (from topic_nexus_extras) for a topic
>> I have, it looks like I need to convert the topic to a nexus, which
>> could be as simple as checking the Nexus box on the Topics Editor
>> page.  So far so good.  My question is, will anything else change for
>> that topic, assuming I don't change anything else?
>>
>> Thanks
>> 	Mark
>
> I don't think so. Just realize that making it a nexus doesn't
> necessarily make it a skin, if that's what you're going after.
>
>   Shane
>
>
>
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